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Council News CITY OF WAGGA WAGGA
FIRST PRINTED SATURDAY 27 OCTOBER 2018
Issue No: 218
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A little Aussie legend
Little Lucas Lacy is as true blue as footballs, meat pies, kangaroos and Holden cars. In fact, he just loves Holden’s V8 supercars and adored the kangaroos he saw during his first visit to Wagga Wagga’s Botanic Gardens' Zoo recently. Lucas and his mum Soo-Yin Dunn were in Wagga Wagga visiting family and friends while on holidays from their United States home in Virginia. It was Soo-Yin’s first visit back home in four years and saw it as the perfect opportunity for her to arrange a special citizenship ceremony for Lucas who is three months away from his third birthday. Story continued inside NEW AUSSIE: Lucas Lacy celebrated his Australian citizenship with family and friends in Wagga Wagga this week and also got the chance with his mum Soo-Yin to catch up with Mayor Greg Conkey OAM.
Concrete flows for levee upgrade Construction work at the levee upgrade site at Kooringal Road is progressing to schedule this week, with form work on several sections of the spillway boxed and concrete poured. A concrete pump towered over the work site and trucks were busy delivering concrete for both the spillway and
pedestrian and cycling pathway under construction (pictured right). The new three-metre wide path starts at the Monumental Cemetery at Cemetery Road and will eventually link up with the existing pathway at Copland Street. Wagga Wagga City Council Senior Project Manager Darryl Woods said both headwalls on either side of Copland Street, are poured and earthworks are well underway to join these cement structures with the levee bank. “In the event of a flood temporary barriers are locked in to the headwalls to secure the levee,” he said. “Two spillways are included in the levee
design; the first at Flowerdale Lagoon is completed. “Spillways are designed at a height lower to the levee height to slowly release water into a protected area in a controlled manner, rather than risking overtopping or breaching the levee in a flood event that exceeds the levee wall height." Stage 1 construction works are scheduled for completion by the end of the year. Councillors will consider a recommendation to proceed with a tender for Stage 2 works - from Narrung Street to Copland Street - at the 29 October Council meeting. Stay updated with the levee upgrade at wagga.nsw.gov.au/levee.
Family Garden Festival SUNDAY 4 NOVEMBER | 9AM - 4PM WAGGA WAGGA BOTANIC GARDENS
FREE ENTRY + LOTS OF FREE ACTIVITIES
For event details visit wagga.nsw.gov.au/bg50